Gerald Vizenor is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation, and has published more than thirty books, including Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Native Storiers, Father Meme, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of…
SUBMIT NOW for Best American Experimental Writing
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Now is the time to submit your work for the 2015 edition of Best American Experimental Writing! THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 1ST 2014 BAX compiles the best North American writing inspired by an experimental ethos. The inaugural edition, published in July 2014 by Omnidawn, features 75 works by a diverse range of emerging and established…
#tbt Rae Armantrout, & Paul Muldoon, for the New Yorker
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Join us on The New Yorker‘s Sound Cloud to enjoy a reading and interview with Rae Armantrout, conducted by Paul Muldoon. Armantrout recalls and reads a Susan Wheeler poem, from the The New Yorker archives. Then she reads a poem of her own, before discussing her work with Muldoon. Wesleyan University Press will publish Armantrout’s next book, Itself, in…
Susan Campbell’s “Tempest-Tossed” reviewed in TLS
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We’re pleased to announce that Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker, by Susan Campbell, was recently reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement (September 5, 2014) About the book: Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the “Fabulous Beecher” family—one of America’s most high-powered families of the nineteenth century. Older sister Harriet…
#tbt: Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Page One” from DAY
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This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Kenneth Goldsmith’s “’Page One’ from The Day,” published in Wesleyan’s anthology, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics. The poem is from Goldsmiths book Day. Listen to Goldsmith read his poem here, at the book’s companion website. . “Page One” from Day “All the News That’s Fit to Print” The…
#TBT: “Delta Traveller” by our new Poet Laureate, Charles Wright
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It’s Throwback Thursday, and also a day to celebrate the United States’ new Poet Laureate: Charles Wright. This week’s selection is “Delta Traveler,” from Charles Wright’s Country Music, Selected Early Poems. Delta Traveller —MWW, 1910–1964 Born in the quarter-night, brash Tongue on the tongueless ward, the moon down, The lake rising on schedule and Dr…
Gerald Vizenor on the road in support of Blue Ravens and Favor of Crows
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Gerald Vizenor, arguably the most prolific Native American author of our time, is on the road sharing his knowledge with audiences far and wide. After events in New York City and Minneapolis, he is gearing up for a series of readings and lectures that will take him to several European destinations and Japan in support…
For Mothers Day: Two Connecticut Women
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Happy Mothers Day! Wesleyan University Press is celebrating two new books about fascinating Connecticut women. In her book Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan Campbell tells the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s younger half-sister. Isabella Beecher Hooker was a curiously modern nineteenth-century figure. She was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and a mover…
Congratulations, Joy Harjo!
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Congratulations to Joy Harjo, recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. Read more about Harjo’s life and achievements here. Wesleyan is proud to have published two of Harjo’s books: the American Book Award-winning poetry collection In Mad Love and War and Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo.
The British Raid on Essex
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At 7:30 pm last night, as the sky grew dark, a bonfire lit the water-side green at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. Jerry Roberts, author of The British Raid on Essex: The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812, recounted the story of the infamous raid on the town, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of…
